Living Color

 The Phillips Building in living color.

Quote of the Week

 "I never get tired of blue sky." Vincent van Gogh

The Art of Collage

 I love collage. So when I heard some disparaging remarks this week about this art form (it's messy, what's the point), I felt obliged to defend it.

Some of the best known (great) artists have worked in collage: Chagall, Picasso, &  Matisse.

What attracts me to collage is the design element, taking found papers & ephemera and arranging them into a pleasing composition.

My latest adventures into collage:

Watercolor paper with acrylic paint, torn, glued & sewn with book pages & for added interest a postage stamp.

And these are  "postcards" and with a stamp these will actually go through the mail.

Lee Godie

 Yeah, for self taught artists! Lee Godie (1908-1994) came to art in one of the later chapters of her life. Yet she became a fixture of the Chicago art scene for 30+ years. She was a photographer, mostly self portraits. And she painted portraits of people she liked & only sold her art to people she liked.